In the Teatinos-Universidad district of the city of Málaga stands the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, a work of LLPS Arquitectos (Eduardo Pérez Gómez and Miguel Ángel Sánchez). The complex – with a built area of 31,639 square meters – is br
Completed in 1941, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters was the first school to go up on the University of Zaragoza’s San Francisco campus. Designed by Regino Borobio and José Beltrán, it stretched out longitudinally with a symmetrical layout. Subse
Located in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a warm dry region, this project involved renovating and enlarging a rural school built for the children of the workers of the Penna cement factory. Forming a multipurpose shaded area accessible
On the campus of Waseda University in Honio, a city in Japan’s Saitama Prefecture, this three-story building contains facilities for sport training and meetings. The gym had to have natural indirect lighting, ideal for physical exercises done indoors
The organizational principle behind this project was based on the idea of a superstructure allowing for constant reconfiguration of the floor plan. The two-level, glass-clad building raised for the Technical University of Braunschweig, in the German
On the outskirts of the town of Derio, near Bilbao, the Barcelona firm AV62 – led by Toño Foraster – was commissioned by APNABI (Association of families of people with autism spectrum disorders) to design this day center for young persons diagnosed w
Ubicado entre la avenida principal del campus y la zona residencial universitaria, el proyecto busca ofrecer un edificio abierto y permeable, que invite a los estudiantes a un espacio de convivencia, investigación y trabajo de fácil uso y recorrido i
Outside Bohinjska Bistrica, the largest settlement in the Bohinj Valley, stands this school promoted by the local community to orient education towards a closer connection with nature. The fruit of a collaboration between the Slovenian firm ARREA and
This compact and efficient building contains four classrooms, arranged in twos, back to back, around a multifunctional hall that also serves as a refectory. Each classroom has its own storage with sanitary facilities. The volume has a playful shape,
The Swiss studio led by Diego Comamala and Toufiq Ismail-Meyer designed this preschool in the small village of Ried-Brig, on the road that connects Switzerland’s Canton of Valais to Italy. The project is part of a plan to remodel the entrance to the
Ubicada entre el monte Meru y el Kilimanjaro, en la región tanzana de Arusha, esta escuela de la remota aldea de Ngabobo es un encargo de la ONG Africa Amini Alama, a la que asisten…
From outside, the library is read as an exposed concrete stone box, entirely glazed on the north facade, including its corners, and the roof. Through adequate openings, natural light floods the immaculate double-height reading room...
The one-floor nursery of the school is organized in a simple square floor plan structured by equidistant fair-faced reinforced concrete columns. Both the walls of the building and the enclosure are white to guarantee the requested security...
The building stands in front of mounts Ararat and Aragats like a white box on a plinth. The program is distributed vertically, reserving the outdoor floor and the podium for large public events and the intermediate levels for the classrooms...
OMA / Chris van Duijn has won the competition to design a new campus for Hongik University in Seoul, carrying the day over SANAA, Herzog & de Meuron, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and David Chipperfield Architects. Built in the 1950s on the slop
The organization that operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory has opened a facility for scientific education and outreach, composed of several blocks pierced by a raised walkway.
Nestled in the heart of the citadel of Bonifacio, in the southern French island of Corsica, this daycare is part of the former Montaur military district. Amid stone towers, the educational facilities rise with a concrete material that incorporates ag
The aesthetic of the school dialogs with the buildings on the sides, and the facade folds from the street forming vegetal terraces. Though half of the monolithic structure is preserved, a timber framework reinforces and lightens it visually…
The new Fay Jones School subdivision embodies the woodworking tradition of the city. A subtle glass covering that is superimposed to the wood structure lets passers-by see the laboratories, the exhibitions, or the workspaces from the street…
In southern Chile's Malleco Province, specifically in the commune named Los Sauces, stands this building that is part of the education ministry's drive to build eight small schools in Araucanía Region, where a high percentage of the population is Map
Located in downtown Logroño, this public secondary school was thoroughly revaped to create sports facilities, exhibition halls, an auditorium, and a multipurpose classroom that all citizens would have access to. The original building was characterize
Resulting from a two-phase competition, the commission calls for the reconstruction of the school in multiple phases and on the same plot occupied by the old and now obsolete building, dating from the 1950s.
Bruce Engel, who founded BE_Design in 2016, was commissioned to raise this shelter for health, education, and mentorship programs catering to women, which doubles as a place for the rural community to gather in. At the heart of the building is a spac
On the campus of Brown University, the New York studio REX – with Joshua Ramus, a former partner at OMA, at the helm – has completed a versatile performing arts center that addresses the requirements of a renowned full student symphony orchestra and
The expansion of its Teatinos Campus has enabled the University of Málaga to equip itself with cutting-edge facilities and greatly improve its offer of academic programs. One of the beneficiaries of this is the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therap
In education, too, there have been classes. While the great universities born out of medieval enlightenment took up large and sometimes luxurious buildings, primary education practically remained restricted to the domestic scale – to small classrooms
Andrés Jaque has on the outskirts of Madrid broken ground in school architecture and given tangible form to an innovative pedagogical method.
Pupils asked for a building without walls that was like a garden and a spaceship. The dazzling result, housed within a living skin for insects and fungi, is one of the most inventive schools ever built. "It looks like a robot made of butter,” was one
The battle of ‘modernity’ was waged not only in the field of forms and techniques, but also in that of ideals. It has been necessary to acknowledge that modernity was ‘ideological’ for it to be assessed with detachment, and that the modern ideology h
EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) invites applications for a faculty position in Architectural Design and Heritage. The position is open at the level of Assistant (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured)
Para hacer prosperar las áreas con menos recursos de la Ciudad de México, el gobierno regional ha puesto en marcha una red de centros educativos para personas analfabetas o que han abandonado los estudios. En el de la colonia Presidentes, una de las
The career of Andrés Jaqué can conceptually be described as being halfway between architectural design and critical activism, and geographically it is divided between Madrid and New York City, where he has been teaching since the year 2013, and direc
Commissioned by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the non-profit organization American Friends of Le Korsa (AFLK), the New York-based architect Toshiko Mori has raised a school for children aged 5 to 10 in the remote Senegalese town of Fass. A
In the village of Rudrapur, located in the Dinajpur Disrtict of northern Bangladesh, the German architect Anna Heringer – in conjunction with Veronika Lang and the non-profit organization Dipshikha – recently completed a therapy center for people wit
Along with museums, opera houses, and national assemblies, a specifically modern type of architecture that developed in the course of the 19th century was the center for teaching and learning. First were the universities, which were updated to serve
Soon after the Dublin-based Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara learned that they had come away with the 2010 Pritzker Prize (see Arquitectura Viva 223), it was announced that their firm, Grafton Architects, had carried the day in the competition for
Directed by Miguel Martínez and Pau Batalla, the firm Emac – an acronym for Mediterranean space for contemporary architecture – carried the day in the ideas competition for a preschool and primary school situated in La Pobla Llarga, a municipality in
Prejudice associates private schools in the English-speaking countryside with antiquated but decorous Gothic or neo-Gothic architectures featuring ivy-covered walls, colorful stained glass windows, and boiseries worthy of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. So
Brutalism with a friendly countenance: this is how one might venture to describe the architecture that Grafton Architects – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara – have been carrying out for the past twenty years in Ireland, Europe, and America, from t
Formerly known as ArtCenter/South Florida, Oolite Arts is an organization that has worked for decades in order to provide affordable work space for visual artists in Miami, a mission that has become increasingly difficult in a city saturated by block
In a departure from the gothic image of English private schools, Brighton College’s new building, designed by OMA, is an expression of global ambition. Think of an English private school and you will probably think of somewhere gothic. Something like
Universities are mothers that nurture knowledge, depositaries of wisdom that guarantee the continuity of our civilization, and also foci of innovation that serve to steer societies towards unknown roads.
Two issues ago, in time with the opening of Lausanne’s Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, we highlighted the splendid international trajectory of Barozzi Veiga, dotted as it is with building works as iconic as the Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Philharmonic Hall in
It has been announced by the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago that the winner of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) – awarded every two years to the finest works of architecture carried out in t
Studio Muoto recently completed a multiuse installation for the Université Paris-Saclay campus. Aiming for a combination of rationalization and flexibililty, the Parisian architecture firm has designed a volume characterized by large aluminum sliding
The Barcelona practice of Jordi Badia (BAAS), in collaboration with the local firms Grupa 5 Architekci and Maleccy Biuro Projectowe, recently completed the new Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in the Polish town of Katowic
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